Hi! I've just tried to do a backup of a machine with rsync. While doing this (I was reading emails:-) I noted that mbox for mbox, I had no longe new mails, but I've never read off these mailboxes lately... This seemed to be a st_atime problem, and indeed, I could verify that. This is what I used for backup:
rsync --archive \
--recursive \
--stats \
--compress \
--verbose \
--delete \
--delete-excluded \
--links \
--hard-links \
--owner \
--group \
--devices \
--times \
--sparse \
--partial \
--force \
--numeric-ids \
${RSYNC_EXCLUDE} \
"root@${1}:/" \
"/mnt/backup/${1}"
Note: $1 is a machine name, and RSYNC_RSH=ssh.
I think '--preserve-server-atime' would be a nice additional feature,
and I tend to implement it on monday or so. I haven't yet looked at the
source, so there may be already a solution to this problem. If you think
this is a nice feature, please give some response...
MfG, JBG
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